Transnational Working-Class Literatures Canons and Connections in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Wiktor Marzec is Assistant Professor at the Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland. His publications include, Rising Subjects: The 1905 Revolution and the Origins of Modern Polish Politics (2020) and the co-authored From Cotton and Smoke. Łódź – Industrial City and Discourses of Asynchronous Modernity, 1897–1994 (2019).

Magnus Nilsson is Professor of Comparative Literature at Malmö University, Sweden. Working-class literature is his main area of expertise. His publications include Literature and Class: Aesthetical-Political Strategies in Modern Swedish Working-Class Literature (2014) and Working-Class Literature(s): Historical and International Perspectives (two volumes, edited with John Lennon, 2017 and 2020).

Mike Sanders is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture at the University of Manchester, UK. Chartist literature and culture is his main area of expertise. His publications include, The Poetry of Chartism: Aesthetics, Politics, History (2009) and the co-edited collection, Subaltern Medievalisms: Medievalism ‘from below’ in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2021).